Canyon Moon ~ {h. s}

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"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further."

AILANI'S POV:

You know as a little girl up until now, all I wanted was to be like the main characters of all the books I've ever read, especially the fan fictions. I was a hopeless romantic and nothing less. Just being able to read those stories made me feel like I was them until the story was over, then I'd be back to me. Little ole Ailani Ruffing who was just trying to escape her shitty reality with a quick getaway of a story. This story is exactly that though, me escaping my reality with a getaway except this getaway wasn't a story or a fanfic I've read. It was real life. Almost as real as anything else that has happened in my life but this one was by far the most special and weirdest one yet. Never in a million years did I think I'd wind up here, laying on Harry Styles' chest, in my dorm, after meeting him 2 months ago at my local coffee shop. Now this is where the story begins getting weird, trust me, you're in for a wild ride labeled "Ailani's Life" cause I can't even believe this shit still. Let's rewind a bit shall we?

2 MONTHS AGO, OCTOBER 3RD, 2020:

"AILANI CAN YOU PLEASE JUST COME WITH ME TO GET COFFEE"
Yup, there goes my bestfriend Charlie, who I call char, what a delight she is. I am currently locked in my room, under the covers, refusing to get up on this beautiful Saturday morning, to spend in bed. My thoughts are rudely interrupted by Char  yelling again
"AILANI JAILYN RUFFING, IM GOING TO HAVE KURT COME IN AND BREAK YOUR DOOR DOWN"
"FINE IM COMING" , I yell huffing and puffing cause I did not want to leave my nice warm bed to get fucking coffee and also because I know my guy bestfriend Kurt will sure enough come down from his dorm to break my door down.
I head over and unlock it and open the door to face an angry Charlie. "Come on get dressed and take a shower, you smell like depression"
I roll my eyes and head to the shower after I pick out my outfit for the day, I can already tell by her attitude that it's going to be a long day.

After I finish in the shower and getting dressed, I head to tame my wild curls and believe it or not, I just use water. ( authors note: Thought I'd input a small joke to girls who constantly ask me what i use to make my hair curly LOL)

I head to the kitchen and see Charlie on her phone, dressed and ready to go waiting on me.
"Let's go get your fucking coffee Char" I say.
Char shoots me a dirty look, "HEY, that's not nice Lani cause once we get there you'll want one too"
I roll my eyes and we head out on our way.

Maybe I should give a little background quick, me and Char live together at college in the dorms, we are both juniors at Temple University in philly along with our best guy friends Kurt, Jesse, and Lucas. Char and Lucas date and have been dating since our freshman year. The guys all have a suite dorm in the floor above us while it's just me and char in our suite which is how we like it since we don't really like a lot of the girls at our school. I am also a Sports Medicine major, aiming to be a doctor and Char is aiming to be a teacher. So we spend a lot of time in very different classes but nothing beats coming home to your bestfriend to watch some good movies while eating ice cream. Now back to the story.

We arrive to the coffee shop that's a good walking distance from our school called the Lucky Goat Coffee House, pretty weird name but man do they have some banging coffee. We walk over to our table that we usually sit in and set our stuff down.
"I'm going to stay here with our stuff, do you want to go order?" Char says with hopeful eyes and I already know she's being lazy cause we just walked.
"Yeah I'll go, your usual?"
"Yes ma'am, you already know Lani" she says smiling.
I laugh at her and walk back to the front of the store to place our orders. I noticed guy walk in that looked suspicious, he was covered in a beanie, sunglasses, and a hood, also a mask on top of that cause of coronavirus. It was quite hard to make out any people with the masks on but for our protection and others I keep mine on all the time. To me it looked like he was hiding but I ignored it and kept walking.
After I place our orders I go to the waiting area and wait for our names to be called. I casually scroll through my twitter feed that is hounded by Harry Styles accounts and One Direction accounts, I am quite the fan and in love with the man and his music that my friends are always annoyed by how often I'm posting him or talking about him. I then hear "Ailani and Harry" hm, what a coincidence I think and I look up to walk over to the drinks and once I get mine and Char's drink I turn around and bump into a hard body causing the coffee to spill all over me.
"Dude what the hell! Why were you so close" I yell out to the man.
"I'm sorry love, it's just I'm in a rush and went to grab my coffee as well, at you okay?" Says a British accent that was all too familiar but I put it to the side due to my anger.
"No I am not okay, I'm wearing my damn coffee!" Char hears me yell and runs over to check what's up cause she knows I have a low temper.
"Lani what's wrong?"
"This jerk was walking too close and when I turned around he bumped into me and now I'm wearing both of our coffees!" I'm yelling frustrated and on the brink of tears.
"I said I was sorry love, can I buy you guys a new coffee please? I'm in a hurry but it was my mistake and I'd like to make it up to you." Says the stranger.
I huff and give in, "yeah sure whatever, we both want. Medium iced cold brew with cream and French Vanilla kind sir" I say in annoyance.
"Okay be right back" he says.
With that being said I was back with char to the table and start wiping my clothes with napkins and I take my mask off since I'll be drinking coffee anyways and start wiping the tears of frustration that begins o slowly fall on my face. I catch them before char notices and I begin to text the group chat about what happened to inform the boys.
As I'm typing angrily I hear the British male speak up, "Here you go loves, again I'm sorry about the mess, I didn't mean to"
Before I can reply back sarcastically, Char speaks and says "I'm sure Lani understands, why don't you sit with us and chat?"
"Lani?"
"Oh right, well the person wearing the coffee is my Bestfriend-"
I cut Char off and say, "Ailani, Ailani Ruffing, and you are?"
The man looks around nervously and sits and says, "Okay if I tell you can you just please not freak out"
I look at him confused, "Freak out how? Who are you?"
He begins to take off his mask and before he even speaks I instantly know who it is, "Well I'm-"
I cut him off, wide eyed, "Harry Styles".
He looks at me with panic "Please don't scream"
"Don't worry I'm not, I mean I'm a fan but I'm still slightly angry about the coffee but wow"
He looks at both me and char sheepishly, "Well thanks I'm flattered and I'm sorry again. So are you guys from around here?"
Char answers him before I could, "Yeah we go to school around the corner, Temple University, ever heard of it?"
He chuckles, "No I have not but Uni aye? You guys are in what year?"
I answer this time, "We're in our third year so we graduate next year."
He looks at me intensely as I speak as if he is retaining every word I am saying, "Ah well, I best be on my way, I'm already late, by the way Ailani do you maybe want to grab coffee again so I can make up for today?
I look at him like he's crazy. Why would Harry Styles want to have coffee with ME. I manage to stutter the sentence our, "U-um s-sure, do you maybe want my number?"
He chuckles and I swear when he does I almost faint, "Yes love, that's what I meant by going to grab coffee, how else would I contact you? Mail?"
I laugh and ask him for his phone and put my number in an hand it back. He then looks at both me and char and gives us his infamous smile "Well I'll text you later and it was nice meeting you guys" He puts his mask back on and heads out the shop.

Char then breaks the silence, "Well you look pale"
I then release the breath of air I've been holding since he left.
"Well yeah fucking Harry Styles spilled coffee on me and asked for my number, the man I love asked for my number" I say all in one breath.
"Well time to go back to our dorm then" she says as she gets up and picks up her belongings.
I start to pick up mine still in thought and wondering if Harry will ever text me.

*AUTHORS NOTE *
Hey guys! So I recently found my passion for writing again and decided to start another fanfiction at the age 19 compared to my shitty one I wrote when I was like 12. I hope you guys enjoy and please give me feedback or any suggestions of what you will like to see in future chapters. Also, I will be updating frequently! Thank you all!